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| | | | |  | Tape Management For Weddingsby Beau Brotherton 6 years agoHello anyone and everyone. I am about to shoot my first wedding this Saturday and could use some advise. I am shoot on a HVX200, I am only shooting MiniDV (I will have just bought the camera on Thursd | Re: Tape Management For Weddings
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
That's the way we do it...stagger the tape changes between the cameras. Be sure to record a "leader" on all your tapes beforehand. I record 60 seconds of color bars, but anything will do. That gives y
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| | | |  | Need help filming a sunriseby Travis Brillowski 6 years agoI hope I'm in the right forum. Anyways, I need to shoot a sunrise with a JVC GY-DV 500 and I am kind of banking on getting it right on the first try. This film will be sped up in editing so a 2 hour s | | | | |
| | | |  | Problems with play backby Richard Allen 6 years agoI have Vegas Video 7 running on a 3Ghz Pentium-IV HT system with 2 gigs of Ram. I have a program drive of 30 gigs and a storage write drive of 500 gigs with 16mb of cache. Now I | Re: Problems with play back
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
Richard Allen "It was working fine for about 6-9 months, then one day sloppy playback." Then something, either hardware or software, has changed. If you can, try using Windows Restore to go back to a
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| | | |  | Remove Camera Shake?by AccountClosedDueToNoRealnameUsed 6 years agoI know Adobe premiere has a plug in to remove camera shake, but does Vegas Video have one that I can buy I'm using Vegas 6.0. | Re: Remove Camera Shake?
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
If the shake is only for a short period, it's pretty easy to use pan crop and keyframing to manually counter the shake. The basic idea is to start with the first frame of the clip. Look for a couple o
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| | | |  | Video Booth ... ?by Jeffrey Stoner 6 years ago anyone have any experience renting a "video booth" y'know, similiar to the old photo booths. i'm in florida and have a client that would like one but the best resource i can find is in canada. any th | Re: Video Booth ... ?
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
Well, the customer is always right...but I see a couple of problems with the concept. 1. The big attractions of the photo booth are privacy, and immediate delivery of the final product. This proposed
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| | | | | Rendering problemsby gerge211 6 years agoCan someone HELP I've been having trouble with rendering vegas. I have spent about 3 hours on the phone with vegas tech support so I have tried alot of different things. Uninstall, reinstall, shut dow | Re: Rendering problems
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
The Media Manager problem is, I think, related to the version you are using (7.0c). 7.0d is available for download and fixes a number of bugs. 7.0e is also available, but I've heard some folks are hav
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| | | | | Crossfade in Vegasby chicbearsfan 6 years agoI am a new student to Vegas and For extra credit my teacher wants me learn how to use a forum. So here is what my question is. What is a crossfade What are the two different methods to create a crossf | Re: Crossfade in Vegas
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
A crossfade is another word for a dissolve. The transition consists of one clip gradually becoming more and more transparent, revealing the next clip. It is generally used to denote a change in time o
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| | | | | How to 'preview' lower video tracks?by Will Standley 6 years agoI've got 3 cams & 3 video tracks... all stacked one on top of another in Vegas... Track-1 ----------------- Track-2 ----------------- Track-3 ----------------- Question 1 - How can I display Track-2 o | Re: How to 'preview' lower video tracks?
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
Think of the tracks as sheets of paper in a stack. You can only see the top one...UNLESS the top sheet is transparent, or is smaller than the sheets below it. As Ed says, you can "turn off" the higher
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| | | | | Can I make voices have a higher pitch?by Amberle 6 years agoMy teacher is giving me the weekend to figure this all out now. Thanks for the help :D ...I'm just not a computer person. It did make the video and audio move faster, but it didn't make the voices mor | | | | |
| | | | | Editors Challenge?by Arash Monjazeb 6 years agoWasn't there a contest a while back were editors were pitted against each other to see which editing platform was the best What was the result of that --------------- Arash Monjazeb AMN Video | Re: Editors Challenge?
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
I have no idea. Thomas, a good editor is a good editor. However, the system that one good editor prefers may not be the right one for another good editor, or the right one for you. The only way to fin
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| | | |  | Training videosby John Thomas 6 years agoI am looking for some DVD training on how to shoot and edit weddings. I was wondering if anyone has suggestions on which ones are the best and where to find them. Thanks,John | Re: Training videos
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
There are some excellent ones by Mark and Trisha Von Lanken, Glen Elliott, and Randy Stubbs, and Hal Landen, to name a few.Regards, Doug Graham
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| | | |  | XD CAM EXby Don Greening 6 years agoHi all, Not sure if this is the right place to post this query or should I be asking in the Sony DV forum, but........ until I hear otherwise there will be no cross-posting. Has anyone run across some | Re: XD CAM EX
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
According to the folks who talked to Sony at NAB, the price will be "under $8,000". That's pretty expensive for a wedding and event cam, but not impossible. It will record ONLY on the solid state memo
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| | | | | JVC HD110 or Sony HVR-V1Uby Bryanman 6 years agoWhich would you buy and why I know that the Sony has more resolution and it also does 24P. I am planning on using the camera for commercials, events, maybe even shorts or documentaries. I must be hone | Re: JVC HD110 or Sony HVR-V1U
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
Adam Wilt has done a good review of the HVR-V1U, just out. He notes that FCP does have a problem in capturing one of the cam's 24p modes. It's also a bit less light sensitive than the JVC. On the othe
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| | | | | Need basic info about HD and SDby rvanet 6 years agoHello Guys, I am new to this forum and new to the technology. For this, I am hoping if you could guide me through the process. I've got some questions about HD and SD specially in the aspect of storag | Re: Need basic info about HD and SD
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
"What is the typical size of an HD footage Say, a one-minute HD video. Does it consume at around 1G-2GB in size How about SD What about downconverting an HD footage to a standard DV How long does it t
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| | | | | Formats and Specificationsby Erik Gertscher 6 years agoHi I am not sure if this is the right place for my question, but i hope someone can help me with this. I need the formats and resolutions for following projects (i tried to fill out some of the specif | Re: Formats and Specifications
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
Your "HD" category is going to have to be expanded a lot. There are a great many allowable formats within the HD specification. NTSC DV has a framerate of 29.97 fps. The PAR of .9 is correct. As a sta
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| | | | | Mastering back to HDVby Darya 6 years agoHi, I'm having trouble mastering back to HDV deck from final cut. Is it even possible to master through firewire back to a Sony HDV deck Thanks | Re: Mastering back to HDV
by Doug Graham 6 years ago
If you are working in Sony Vegas, and want the convenience and speed of editing DV rather than HDV, try the plugin "Gearshift". It substitutes a DV proxy of the HDV file while you are editing. When yo
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| | | | | DVD Chapters are mixed upby bharadwaj 7 years agoI have a project in DVD Architect. The media files are all avi files rendered in Vegas with chapter markers. When I preview the DVD in Architect, everything works fine. But when I render and compress | | | | |
| | | | | HC1 / A1 bottom-loading quick release?by Charlie Steiner 7 years agohas anyone invented a gadget letting you change tapes while on a tripod I shoot performances and if I'm using an XLR box under the camera I have to detach it from the tripod to detach the camera from | | | | |
| | | | | Shotgun Micby Shawn Rock 7 years agoI need to purchase a shotgun mic for my Z1U. I will be using it indoors for dialog and outdoors as well. Any suggestions Howie Wowie DDAV Houston Texas | Re: Shotgun Mic
by Doug Graham 7 years ago
The ME66 is a good shotgun. I have one, use it, like it. But it won't get you interview audio that's very much better than the supplied microphone. No shotgun (or for that matter, no on-camera mic) wi
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| | | | | changing a transparency into a brushby Kelley Neff 7 years agoHi I recently purchased eyelashes from a site and they are on a transparency. Is it possible for me to make these transparencies into brushes If so, how do I do it. I still consider myself a newbie in | Re: changing a transparency into a brush
by Doug Graham 7 years ago
Change the lash color to black, or whatever it is you want to use. Use the magic wand selection tool to select the background by clicking anywhere in it. Invert Selection. Copy (CTRL+C). Open the imag
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| | | | | Wide screen monitor or 2 monitorsby Kevin LaBonty 7 years agoI am purchasing a new monitor. Is it better to have two monitors or one of those new 20" wide screens for workflow I mainnly use Photoshop and Vegas. | Re: Wide screen monitor or 2 monitors
by Doug Graham 7 years ago
Even still better yet is two widescreen monitors! :) However, if the choice is between two 19" monitors and one 20" widescreen, I'd go with the dual 19s. That will give you more screen real estate. I
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| | | | | automatic crossframesby Gary & Yvonne 7 years agoEverytime I do a cut on a clip with the S....it creats a crossfade in the audio only. I saw that somehow auto crossfades was on so i turned it off but it still doing it.....Is this the right place to | Re: automatic crossframes
by Doug Graham 7 years ago
Leave Quantize to Frames "ON" for most video work. If you need to do an audio edit within a frame, then you can turn it off to get finer resolution. Regards, Doug Graham
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| | | | | automate sizing imagesby gary-young 7 years agoI have tried using actions to batch resize digital camera images to then import into iDVD on the Mac. I am trying to find a way to batch convert the files so that all the photos taken vertically (port | Re: automate sizing images
by Doug Graham 7 years ago
Writing the action will be a lot simpler if you sort the photos first. In the media browser (or any thumbnail viewing program) select all the vertical images and move them to their own file folder. No
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| | | | | Suggestions - Sound effects and Storageby bloomingg 7 years agoLooking for recommendations on: 1. best place to start for sound effects library I see so many out there, is there a good basic, cheap one to start with Web site 2. I have a great computer system to d | | | | |
| | | | | making one color transparentby Mark Rounding 7 years agoHey Calves, I'm trying to eliminate a white background on a jpeg logo. How do I select the color and eliminate all white totally to have the background transparent I don't have access to the original | Re: making one color transparent
by Doug Graham 7 years ago
1. Use the Magic Wand tool to select all the white areas. (set the tolerance level higher or lower to get all of the white, but nothing of the parts you want to keep). 2. Use Select Invert Selection.
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| | | | | Building a Video Editing PC - Tips?by Jeff Slavik 7 years agoHi Everyone, I am fairly new to video editing and have completed my first project. The first thing I noticed was that my pc was severely lacking in power. I have a Sony Vaio RS310 with just under a GB | Re: Building a Video Editing PC - Tips?
by Doug Graham 7 years ago
Jeff, Editing HDV requires a husky computer, for sure. If price is no object, look into dual core dual processor systems. However, you can build a very respectable system with a single dual core proce
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